Future and Value: The Library as Strategic Partner [eBUG 2019]

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University of Kentucky

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6-14-2019

Future and Value: The Library as Strategic Partner

[eBUG 2019]

Antje Mays

University of Kentucky, [email protected]

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Mays, Antje, "Future and Value: The Library as Strategic Partner [eBUG 2019]" (2019).Library Presentations. 209. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/libraries_present/209

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Source: Lockwood & Ritter (2016). Maine State Library Trusted Professions Survey. (n=400) 43% 44% 44% 59% 59% 68% 74% 78% 81% % 1 Nurses 2 Librarians 3 Pharmacists 4 Medical Doctors 5 High school teachers 6 police officers

7 clergy

8 funeral directors 9 accountants

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Financial:

• $$$

• Budget, budget cuts, reduced

staffing, rising costs of resources

• Budget constraints

• Budget cuts

• Budgets

• Compensation

• Finances

• Funding, funding, funding

• $$$$$

• Funding

• funding

• Rising serials/subscription costs

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Structural & Management:

• Advocating for the library on campus.

• Evolution of the Libraries Physical Space,

Changing Community Expectations of Libraries and Librarians, Maintaining Connections.

• inability to manage people and personalities.

• morale, micromanagement, systems that don't work for us / our users.

• Our own resistance to change.

• Poor communication.

• reduced staffing.

• Complacency.

• Involving us in technology decisions/planning at beginning of major campus changes, so we can support the changes in our systems.

• Keeping control of our resources and how we want to provide access to them.

• keeping up with the must do work and still having time for innovation.

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Outreach:

Upskilling Needs:

• Engaging students.

• Engaging students who don’t use the library

• Outreach.

• Students don't know what they don't know.

Faculty too.

• Professional development.

• Qualified staff.

• Skill development.

• Skills don’t match needs.

• staff training.

Technology:

• Keeping up with advances in technology.

• Knowledge of trending technology.

• Rapid technological innovation.

• Staying current with technology.

• tech changes.

• campus-level IT departments.

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Relevancy & Relationships:

• Continue to make ourselves relevant across campus.

• Expressing ROI.

• Jargon! Adaptation to communicate with people of different backgrounds.

• Promoting our relevancy.

• Need to "market" ourselves within our community.

• Quantitative metrics that demonstrate library value.

• Visibility.

• “everything’s online”, budgets, proving value.

• Being valued for our skill sets.

• value in the overview organization.

• Positioning ourselves to use our skills to collaborate with students and faculty on their research and learning goals.

• Communicating relevance.

• educate general public on how to evaluate information to prove worthy of the profession.

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• Accessible technology to support mission. • Advances in discovery. • Advocacy. • Advocacy. • Affordability. • Affordable textbooks.

• Analyze the research output of the institution.

• Be the change.

• Better integration into curriculum. Improving technology.

• change agents.

• Change the world!

• Changing Library Spaces.

• Collaboration across campus.

• Community Space changes: Entertainment and Community meeting spaces.

• Contributors to affordable education.

• Data curation & discovery of unique collections.

• drive next-gen conversations about discovery, delivery and use.

• Educating other on the complexities of information.

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E - O:

• Enter the online environment to reach users where they are.

• evaluation of information.

• Giving patrons what they need, not just what we want to sell them.

• Info curation and discovery ever more important given info deluge.

• Info literacy. • information literacy. • Innovation. • Innovations. • Knowledge Mongering. • Leaders.

• Learning Commons that combine tutoring, writing and research in the library. Embedded librarians in FYE classes.

• Leveraging current demand/need of information to increase value and visibility of our profession.

• Library spaces.

• Linked data.

• Moving beyond a space and collection.

• Open and free resources.

• Open source software.

• Organizing, curating available data.

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P - Z:

• Preservation.

• Regional (eBUG).

• Research data.

• sharing effort in development (like with app center).

• Student engagement.

• Student engagement and research support.

• Student retention.

• Student support.

• Teaching/Learning support.

• The fact that we do not have paywalls to our users.

• User self-service tools.

• Virtual shelf browsing through mobile and AR technology.

• Working with individual faculty to develop supporting tools to enhance student

experiences like 3d printer for visually impaired teaching.

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0 - 3

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• 3rd space.

• Access to information for those without access to technology.

• Affordability.

• Affordable education.

• Analyzing information, providing access to

information/technology to people who may not have the means to access it themselves, aiding in the democratic

process.

• Building Communities.

• Connecting people to accurate information.

• Data preservation / open data.

• Debunk Fake News, Support Information Integrity.

• Deep fake videos.

• Democratic values.

• digital divide.

• digital divide & access to information.

• Digital literacy.

• Diversity and inclusion.

• Education.

• Education in digital literacy and media literacy.

• Election fact finder.

• Equal access and services.

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F - Z:

• Fact checks. • Fake news. • fake news. • Fake news. • Free speech.

• Giving people a place to be where they're not expected to buy anything.

• How to find answers to questions.

• Politics - is what they are saying true?

• privacy issues.

• Protecting info.

• Providing equal access for all economic levels in society.

Community access to resources.

• Providing knowledge to underserved.

• Reducing the digital divide.

• Teaching how to find, evaluate and use information.

• What is “fake news”?

• Illiteracy. • inclusivity. • information equity. • information evaluation. • information integrity. • Information management. • information overload.

• Knowledge of computer and mobile use.

• Literacy.

• Misinformation.

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A - E:

• Active Participation in the government.

• Be approachable.

• be involved in all sorts of community events.

• Be involved in community.

• Be passionate about our profession.

• Be present.

• Be present to students and patrons beyond the library walls and mission.

• Be the best librarians we can and let our work speak for itself!

• Be vocal regarding copyright.

• Be well educated ourselves.

• Beat a reigning champion on Jeopardy!

• clear communication.

• Communicate about all the behind the scenes work at libraries (there’s a lot).

• Communicate what we can offer.

• Contribute to ambitious databases.

• Discovery integrity.

• Don’t fall behind technologically.

• Don’t wait for patrons to ask.

• Embedded in classes.

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F - N:

• Focus groups with faculty and Focus groups about resource needs.

• Get outside library into community.

• give folks in behind-the-scenes positions

opportunities to interact directly with users if they'd like.

• Host events that bring people together.

• improve our services.

• Involve in community.

• Issue press releases about what we’re doing.

• Keep up with trends.

• know who we serve and what they want from us.

• Lean in!

• Linked data.

• listen to both sides.

• Listen to others.

• Maintain high customer service and support.

• Make Connections.

• Make it easy to ask questions.

• Mention new or best services at every opportunity.

• More transparent communication about information costs.

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O - Z:

• Offer inventory control for any type of university/school equipment.

• Offer orientations, trainings, or one on one sessions with new faculty.

• Offer to help people.

• Open access.

• Practice good information security/privacy ethics.

• Provide factual information.

• Represent the library on college committees.

• Run for office

• Stay Trendy and keep up to date with world news.

• Stay up to date.

• Stop in-fighting between different types of libraries.

• Support open access.

• take advantage of formal and informal

opportunities to engage and inform those in our communities.

• Volunteering on campus - talk with students and faculty about what they're doing and how they’re using library resources.

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